Kanchan Jain

Head of BPEA Credit Group at BPEA Credit

Speaker

Ms. Kanchan Jain has 30 years of experience across private credit, corporate and structured finance, loan markets and debt capital markets across Europe and Asia and in various roles across origination, structuring, underwriting and risk. As Head of BPEA Credit Group, Ms. Jain is responsible for the overall business across its investment & non-investment functions. Over the last 11 years, Ms. Jain, along with leadership team at BPEA Credit, has led the creation and build-out of one of the leading private credit management groups in Asia, focused on the fast-growing mid-market corporate sector.

Before moving to India in 2008, Ms. Jain worked for 10 years based out of London as Managing Director at HSBC, and before that as Director at Barclays Capital in the Structured Credit business. Prior to that, Ms. Jain worked in the Asian debt capital markets across debt syndication, loan trading & risk, based out of Hong Kong and in project finance based out of India.

Ms. Jain works with multiple industry bodies in the alternative assets space in Asia. She is the Co-Chair, Private Credit Committee at Singapore Venture & Private Capital Association (SVCA) and Exco Member and Co-Chair, Private Credit Council at Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (IVCA).

Ms. Jain has lived and worked in Asia & Europe across multiple stints. She holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from VNIT.